Yesterday I introduced you to the Sandscapes collection and the accompanying panels from Northcott.

Today I’ll give you some tips on using the Mountain Peak panel and adding a pieced border to make this quilt.

Mountain Peak panel quilt 35″ x 55″

This Mountain Peak quilt will be 35½” x 55½” when finished. Here’s how to get started.

material

1 Mountain Peak panel by Northcott

⅝ yd dark green Sandscapes by Northcott for the inner border and binding

⅛ yd of each of dark blue and 2 medium blue Sandscapes for the pieced blocks

⅝ yd light blue Sandscapes for the border

TIP 1 Often when you buy a panel it’s not perfectly straight, so it’s very important to straighten the edges to make sure that your borders will be straight and flat. There’s also some extra fabric around the edges of a panel that needs to be removed.

I like to use a ½” finished size binding for my quilts. If you’d like to try this, cut 5 binding strips 3″ wide from the remaining dark green Sandscapes fabric. When trimming the quilt after the quilting is finished, make sure to leave ¼” of batting and backing all around the outside edges of the quilt. Then sew on the binding with a ½” seam.

Jean has been designing and publishing patterns since 1997. For the past 10 years she has been designing patterns for new fabric collections by Northcott Fabrics. Her work has been published in several magazines in both Canada and the United States.
Jean holds a Fiber Arts Certificate in quilting and has taught extensively throughout Canada, including six national Quilt Canada conferences. She was named "Canadian Teacher of the Year" in 2003 by the Canadian Quilters Association and has won numerous awards for her quilts.